Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d92d028d25c1fc2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:03:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5b510c44d75973792aa90d0482a67180 SHA-1: 885760739e1494c63790c67bfac6e7fee852ec1a SHA-256: d92d028d25c1fc2f3d02db4fa2a22d18f530a4c22c6072abda1bfe018a18ea3b
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a malicious document, including malformed stream lengths and a high ML classifier score. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites hosting what appear to be further PDF payloads. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting, coupled with the ClamAV detection, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edd3dd2fa2---laxivasu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qvpp4lbbkshcqauqp896q6svn/56699804657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082afb8a88b8---23203042179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dc778af3b46a1955105c36afb78cabc/wibovalaxewebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d8bb08f33---39551698621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/36690912123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lidixove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/togidokineripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785d3600762---78613877436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876a0fbacdf---62938287189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/37549825296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xigmatek.com/upload/files/fizejepazoxiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3db70b66e09af4181552caf566c61dad/60904796361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ore38litp0dmc5ml54641arctq/41642097887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db09a9eafac49ca7f5c260521db40053/644419660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/97688701081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2u5gmcv120s8ljv1ilg4ek46m4/xalapuwesitigaripu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609477cf42788---nidebised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c50a7d723e---52146222114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aff6d7410---rebuvigubowusoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/roleni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/845240343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=price+action+scalping+eaPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10918 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001212f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212F 10548 bytes
SHA-256: ae895c5b8b8fc65f69e9ed01e840d71d385fb4ca0c243ebe9174404b2751f93a
font_02_sfnt_off00013957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13957 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 864936bdf7f4fe2aedb2eda58001818e31e8bb8dc83f3cce585413d493b88f31